La Ferté-Vidame
| La Ferté-Vidame | ||
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| Commune | ||
 View of Ferté-Vidame castle, before 1750, Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe | ||
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  La Ferté-Vidame Location within Centre-Val de Loire region  La Ferté-Vidame | ||
| Coordinates: 48°36′30″N 00°53′59″E / 48.60833°N 0.89972°ECoordinates: 48°36′30″N 00°53′59″E / 48.60833°N 0.89972°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Centre-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Eure-et-Loir | |
| Arrondissement | Dreux | |
| Canton | Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets | |
| Intercommunality | L'Orée du Perche | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Jean-Pierre Jallot | |
| Area1 | 39.81 km2 (15.37 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)2 | 766 | |
| • Density | 19/km2 (50/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 28149 /28340 | |
| Elevation |
214–286 m (702–938 ft) (avg. 246 m or 807 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
La Ferté-Vidame is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
History
The title of vidame of Chartres was, under the Ancien Régime, attached to the lands of [La] Ferté-Arnault. Among the famous men to bear the title Vidame de Chartres were François de Vendôme, Vidame de Chartres, the English soldier Thomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales (d. 1460), Jean de Ferrieres, and the memoirist Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon. The chateau was Saint-Simon's main country house. Until shortly before the French Revolution the seigneur was Jean-Joseph de Laborde, an ennobled business man with progressive views, who was to be guillotined in 1794.
Castle
The Château de la Ferté-Vidame was substantially rebuilt by the architect Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier in 1771. It is now a roofless shell.
At the Bourbon Restoration, it was restituted to the duchess of Orléans, as the closest relative of her father Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, the owner before the French Revolution. On her death in 1821, the domaine passed to her eldest son Louis-Philippe I, future king of the French. He reconstituted the domaine, rebuilt its fortified wall, repaired its water features, and restored and expanded the small château, though the restoration was interrupted by the Revolution of 1848.
Population
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1962 | 693 | — |
| 1968 | 793 | +14.4% |
| 1975 | 790 | −0.4% |
| 1982 | 784 | −0.8% |
| 1990 | 801 | +2.2% |
| 1999 | 818 | +2.1% |
| 2008 | 766 | −6.4% |
See also
References
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